Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMESo valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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